Suggestion: Make the community forums even more independent

[raul_]

Don't take this as a rant towards the Community Cafe, I hang there a lot. It's just that I use the "Today's posts" button to check for new posts, and I always see threads like "Complete the story" or "The bump thread", or even "Here, I'll post a word, and then you post another, until we're dead".

So, as amusing as those threads are, threads with titles like "Help, my computer doesn't boot" or "Internet doesn't work", etc, etc, keep staying back, with few (it any) replies. I know that there are other ways to search the forums, like "unanswered threads", but if the user bumps it, it's not an unanswered thread anymore, is it?

I think it would be a valid IDEA ( i cannot stress this word enough) to separate the community cafe threads, the backyard, etc, from the Today's Posts function, which would be reserved only for support threads.

We should still be able to browse through the Community's forums, with maybe a "Today's Posts" only for that section.

Please give me some feedback on this, even if it is to say that this idea sucks, it would still be welcome.

Cheers

RauL

[KiwiNZ]

hmmm

Well worth consideration

[loell]

heh, i use the "new post" and you'll see threads like the one describe by the OP , I just wish the deviation can be minimized.

[bapoumba]

I basically agree, but on the other hand, it is useful to me to have all the new threads when I browse the forums with my mod hat.
Could this be user-based, such as the ignore thread/posts function?

[PriceChild]

I'm half confident that if you ignore a subforum from the usercp... that posts from it won't appear in "latest posts" etc.

[raul_]

If I ignore them, am I still able to browse them?

Anyway, I raised the question, not for a personal taste, but because it could draw more atention to the threads that matter, in general.

Maybe most of the users really don't care about this, and don't ignore the subforums, and 50% of the threads they read are "trash" (metaphorically of course )

Call it "tricking the forum user"